100 Korona Hódmezővásárhely

Hódmezővásárhely's savings bank issued this 100 Korona note during the chaotic interregnum of 1919, when the collapse of Austria-Hungary left provincial Hungarian institutions scrambling to cover a severe shortage of circulating small currency. These municipal and institutional emergency issues — szükségpénz — proliferated across Hungarian towns that year precisely because the new central authority could not supply adequate coin or notes fast enough to keep local commerce functioning.

Locally printed emergency paper of this type was rarely recalled systematically, which cuts both ways: survivors exist, but condition varies wildly and provenance is often impossible to trace.